JASON NEWSTED: I Will Tour With VOIVOD - Oct. 14, 2002

Former METALLICA and current VOIVOD bassist Jason Newsted has confirmed plans to tour with the latter outfit following the release of the band's next album, The Multiverse, tentatively due in early March.

"We plan to tour together... the original members and myself," Newsted wrote in an Oct. 11 post on the official Chophouse Records message board. "We're all excited and kicking your collective ass!"

"VOIVOD will be touring next year following the album release," he added in another post dated last Friday, once again implying that the group's participation in the upcoming North American trek headlined by NILE is less than 100% confirmed (a suggestion that has been rejected as false by the tour's booking agent).

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Originally posted by Blackcloud of Deicide:
One of the "Lamest" things I can think of ...now you'll have all of the "flambouyantly-gay-metallica-hicks" checking the out the show just because of him...

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This notion has plagued me since hearing of Jason's "possible" involvement over a year ago. The thought that I might have to stand shoulder to shoulder with Metalli-mouthbreathers in allegiance to Voivod was killing me. Since then I've realized that the Beavis & Buttheads that follow Metallica will be briefly interested, but won't stay because:

1. "That dude don't sound tough like Hetfield".
2. Away doesn't draw like Pushead.
3. Voivod shows don't include heavy pyro use (a key element to holding the attention of the easily amused.)
4. "The Multi-what?"

Jason will be GREAT with Voivod!

I Welcome ANYONE who wants to check out Voivod...no matter what theyre reasons.

Lighten-up, will ya?

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Originally posted by nothingface:
...We may have a brief influx of lowbrows checking out the landscape, but it'll be temporary.

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it's so very pleasant that you're welcoming the whole world to join in peace and harmony w/ the "voivod" experience

but, you just wait till you're slapped in the face w/ the grim reality (so grim, so true, so real) that there is a metalliqueer on stage, when it's burping and farting into the microphone and doing that iguana neck-swivel freaky ass thing it does while it's playing its instrument, which you can't fucking hear in the first place!!!!!!

Metallica fans are totally prepared for Voivod. It makes sense to me. I'm excited.

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Noitall Posted:
Lol X-D, I remember that coffee table...

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LOL! Don't forget "Randy" either... you remember, that guy named Randy who lived down the street from you (and all of us), in his parents basement (whom you never saw), had a moustache, walls covered with posters of Bon Scott, The Scorpions, and Judas Priest. Ahh, the memories of weed, cheap beer, Black Sabbath, and the dirty coffee table. He'd play me some Dio, and in return I'd try and share some Celtic Frost (which he had problems with because he couldn't understand the lyrics ) The Dokken vs. Metallica debates could sometimes continue late into the evenings. Good times were always had, until Randy got that job working on the fishing boats up in Alaska... my friends and I never heard from him again.

i hate to tell you this xd, but "randy" was eaten by an orca, then the orca puked him back out mullet and all (i'm psychic)